I went to watch the Olympics on my Linux laptop, and I didn’t have the correct plugin. I found a post that pointed me to installing the Moonlight plugin. It pointed to a website with both the download link and the installation instructions. Now, I already had Mono installed from the repositories, but all I had to do was install the XPI addon for Firefox that I downloaded from the website.
Month: February 2010
Creating Sheet Music in Linux
I found an excellent link about music typesetting programs:
The program that I tried was MuseScore, which seemed to work very nicely. It seemed a little rough (as in, it crashed a couple of times), but it got the job done for me.
I was able to install MuseScore from Synaptic with the mscore package. There is also a mscore-common package as well.
Performance Problems with rdesktop
I have been having trouble with poor performance in my remote desktop connections using rdesktop. I believe the problem lies in my Internet connection — the problem occurs when I have low bandwidth.
I tested with Windows, and it seems to perform better. The thing that I finally noticed, is that performance is poor in both Windows and Linux. The difference seems to be the cursor. In Windows, it displays the local cursor and instead of the remote. In Linux, it tries to display the cursor where the remote machine actually thinks it is. When the remote machine is sluggish, you see the impact in the mouse in Linux because you feel it in the mouse movements.
I found something that helps:
UbuntuForums: Slow performance when connecting to Vista using rdesktop
The “-z” option is what made the difference for me. From the Linux man pages, here is what that option does:
-z Enable compression of the RDP datastream.
I am not sure this is a complete fix, and if anyone else has better suggestions, please comment. This fix seems to treat the bandwidth problem rather than the mouse movements.